On 2016-11-08 4:37 AM, Cheryl wrote:

> Thank you. Slow recovery. Hospital doctor blamed the liver
> failure on one the medications I was taking.


Bummer. Get well soon.

> I was pretty stupid
> about it because I hated doctors and the first time I got sick I
> let it go for a week thinking it was a stomach bug or food
> poisoning but I spent a week vomiting and unable to keep anything
> down including water.

I know that feeling. I went through something a couple years ago. I
thought it was a stomach flu and a relative who had it suffered for 5
days. My wife kept saying I should go to a doctor and I saw no reason
to. By the sixth night was was extremely dehydrated. My wife insisted I
go to the ER. No way I wanted to go and sit there with a bunch of sick
people, especially if if presented the possibility of having to puck
into an ER public toilet.

I agreed to go first thing in the morning. That night the paid started,
just bad enough that I could not get comfortable enough to sleep, so we
went at 6 am. There was no crowd there so not much of a wait and by 9 am
I had been admitted and surgery scheduled for the next morning. That
week of nausea was my body's version of a gall bladder attack and.
according the report, it was serious inflamed and there was necrotic
tissue.


> I think the worst part was the dehydration. Sorry this got really
> long but I just wanted to pass on that if a medication has a
> possible side effect of liver damage, to take it seriously and
> get the blood tests when the doctor orders them. Though in my
> case my doctor was surprised by the cause because she'd never
> heard of this with that med.

Dehydration is a curious thing. You don't really feel thirsty. You
don't feel inspired to drink. Now you have me worried because I am on
statins for cholesterol and liver damage is a potential side effect.